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Bermuda's young criminals are "reaching out for love and understanding" and "most of them can be redeemed," according to Prison Commissioner Edward Lamb.
Speaking amid escalating gun crime which has seen three men shot dead in the past two weeks Lt. ...
DATE: Dec 19, 2009
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Mayhem erupted yesterday as the Island saw one man murdered, another injured and shots fired in broad daylight — all within 12 hours.
Police have said the shootings might be linked.
The chaos started at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday when 22-year-old Gary "Fi...
DATE: Dec 17, 2009
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The Ministry of Education has taken the precaution of keeping students at some schools inside — and members of the public out — following three shooting incidents in the last 24 hours.
Education Secretary Kevin Monkman confirmed that CedarBridge Acad...
DATE: Dec 16, 2009
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The Bermuda Maritime Museum (BMM) has evolved into a new National Museum of Bermuda.
The move was announced last night with a land transfer by Government of the Casemate Barracks, its adjacent buildings and fortifications.
The expanded site will hous...
DATE: Dec 16, 2009
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Bermuda has lost a generation of young people because social problems have been ignored for many years, former Middletown resident Tillman Darrell claimed yesterday.
The United Bermuda Party candidate said gang violence has plagued the back of town s...
DATE: Dec 16, 2009
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Tim Smith
Bermuda's secondary schools received $30,000 each for participating in PartnerRe's fourth annual Dollars for Hours project.
The project pairs student volunteers with charities to work on community projects.
Education Minister El James attended a priz...
DATE: Dec 16, 2009
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A father-of-one caught smuggling almost $59,000 worth of cannabis into Bermuda was yesterday jailed for three years.
Tyshaon Palmer Rawlins, 24, was convicted by a unanimous jury of bringing eight slabs of the drug in on a JetBlue flight from New Yor...
DATE: Dec 15, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
The cost of living in rent-controlled properties is rising faster than for homes on the free market, Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards told MPs on Friday.
He said Department of Statistics figures showed that over the past five years there had been...
DATE: Dec 14, 2009
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Government has dropped the ball on apprenticeship schemes for young Bermudians, Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons told the House of Assembly on Friday.
He said it was shocking that out of 22 occupational advisory committees set up to ensure tra...
DATE: Dec 14, 2009
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Some might say his task to overhaul the failing public school system is close to impossible.
But for new Board of Education chairman Darren Johnston, it's something that needs to be done to make a better Bermuda.
A passion for education and a desire ...
DATE: Dec 14, 2009
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